Vari Komp (19 March 1921 – 20 August 1986), known professionally as Barbara Bartay, was a
Czech-
American
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film actress. She appeared in several short films at
Columbia Pictures between 1951 and 1956.
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Career
Bartay was born in Bohemia, Crochwice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) in 1921 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1948 under a prospective War Bride arrangement.Metropolitan Opera Guild
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, International Orphans, Inc., National Art Education Association, and the Los Angeles Orphanage Guild.
Personal
Bartay was married three times. Though the first name of her first husband remains unknown, this union gave her the surname of "Bartay." She was married in 1957 to her second husband, Maytor H. McKinley, founder of Utter-McKinley Mortuaries. They remained married until his death. Her third marriage was to Utter-McKinley Mortuaries attorney Samuel McCormac, a union which lasted until her death.
Bartay died of colorectal cancer
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on 20 August 1986 in Los Angeles, California, at age 65.[
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References
External links
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Barbara Bartay at ''threestooges.net''
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1921 births
1986 deaths
Czech film actresses
Czech stage actresses
20th-century Czech actresses
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States